>> somewhere?
> Good question. The answer is I have no idea. I booted Fedora Core and I did a
> ls -l /dev and wrote down the specs for lp0 and parport0. lp0 looked like
> crw-rw---- root lp 6, 0 date lp0 so that is what I used. After reading
> Linux Device Drivers I found out that 6 is the major number and 0 is the minor
> number. The goal was to make sure that the nodes generated by my patch were
> the same as the nodes generated before my patch so I used those numbers.
> Should I have used different major numbers?
You should have at least used the constants from <linux/major.h>
Jan Engelhardt
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